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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For our latest podcast episode, diversity in children's books advocate Keiana Mayfield joined us to discuss Gone Wolf by Amber McBride, which was published in 2023. www.buzzsprout.com/admin/216953... #kidlit

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

For this month's episode, we revisited Mary Norton's The Borrowers. We were as charmed as ever by the ingenuity of the little people who live under the floorboards, but the book had a layer of darkness that we hadn't remembered. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Nancy Hudgins, the author of Books Good Enough for You, a middle-grade biography of editor Ursula Nordstrom, joined us to discuss I'll Get There. It Better Be Worth the Trip by John Donovan, the first YA book to feature a gay romance. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis... #Pride

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Author Alex Poppe joined us to talk about Deenie, Judy Blume's story about a girl, pigeonholed by her family as the pretty one, who discovers she has scoliosis. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

We reread Eleanor Estes's The Moffats at a friend's suggestion and had a great time returning the story of four children growing up in a small Connecticut town in the 1910s. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

We celebrated the beginning of our fourth (!) season by finally rereading E.L. Konigsburg's From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, one of our all-time favorites. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

For our latest podcast episode, we reread Madeleine L'Engle's The Young Unicorns, the third book in her Austin Family series. We discussed 1960s New York, racial representation, and how absolutely bonkers this book is. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

We did a Q&A about the podcast for the middle grade book blog Smack Dab in the Middle and had fun revisiting our first three season. smack-dab-in-the-middle.blogspot.com/2026/02/rere...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

On our latest episode, Deborah introduces Mary Grace to Paddington the bear. Better late than never! rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

On our 50th episode, we talked about our favorite picture books and shared some memories from the two and a half years we've been doing the podcast. Happy holidays, everyone, and thanks for sharing our rereading adventures! rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

Cover of The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats, boy in red snowsuit walking in the snow, Caldecott Medal.

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Our friend Jean Freedman, an expert on theater and World War II London, was the perfect guest to join us to talk about Noel Streatfeild's 1944 novel Theater Shoes (originally published in the UK as Curtain Up). rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Deborah Kalb @deborahkalb.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

On our latest podcast episode, Mary Grace and I discussed E.B. White's classic CHARLOTTE'S WEB! @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

On our third annual Encyclopedia Brown podcast episode, we matched wits with the boy detective (you can too!), delved into the social history of Bugs Meany's hat, and solved the mystery of what state Idaville is in. www.buzzsprout.com/admin/216953...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

With the summer winding down, we revisited The Long Secret, Louise Fitzhugh's 1965 sequel to Harriet the Spy, which is one of the all-time great summer reads. We also talked about Leslie Brodie's wonderful biography of Fitzhugh, Sometimes You Have to Lie. www.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

We had a great time visiting the world of Louisa May Alcott's classic novel Little Women with our friend Jamie Stiehm. Favorite quote from Jamie: "When's the last time you went skylarking and wore a frock?" rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We celebrated the beginning of (northern hemisphere) summer by discussing Magic by the Lake, the sequel to Half Magic. Edward Eager is charming and witty as always, but this book includes several scenes that don't pass muster today. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

For our latest episode, we reread Mary Poppins and discussed, among many other things, the very different book and movie versions of the magical nanny. www.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Jen Howard @jenhoward.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Before I go attempt to do some actual work, a 📚 podcast rec for you: @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social, hosted by @marygracemcgeehan.bsky.social and @deborahkalb.bsky.social. rereadingourchildhood.com

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

For our latest episode, we read Sydney Taylor's wonderful All-of-a-Kind Family, the story of five sisters growing up on New York's Lower East Side in the 1910s. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

For the first episode of our third season, writer Sara Fitzgerald joined us to discuss the first Nancy Drew book, The Secret of the Old Clock. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Tom Reagan’s Witch’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Listen to your children read. Read to your children. Read alongside your children. Take them to libraries. Talk about what reading means to you & what it can unlock. Tell them it doesn’t matter if it’s comics, magazines or books as long as they’re engaged with the written word. #WorldBookDay

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Want to escape down a literary rabbit hole and ignore everything for a while? Permission granted. We're celebrating #WorldBookDay, with this wonderful copy of Alice in Wonderland, illustrated by Margaret Tarrant in 1916. CUL 1916.8.334 #WBD #AliceinWonderland

Alice and various creatures, including a rat and a dodo

Various animals, including the White Rabbit, surround a small lizard who is drinking from a bottle

Dustjacket of Alice in Wonderland, illustrated with various animals and magical creatures

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

On our 40th episode (!), the last of the second season, we discuss Johnny Tremain, Esther Forbes's 1943 Newbery Medal winner about an apprentice silversmith who gets caught up in the events leading up to the American Revolution. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

Cover of Johnny Tremain by Esther Forbes, picture of Johnny standing in front of a panorama of Boston with British soldiers.

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

For our latest episode, we reread Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved 1911 novel The Secret Garden, which has arguably the best setting in all of children's literature. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

We were excited to welcome our first guest, Judy Kalb, to discuss Little Town on the Prairie, the seventh book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House series. www.buzzsprout.com/admin/216953...

Cover of Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder: Mary, Laura, Carrie, and Grace with their new kitten.

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

For our last episode of the year, we talked about our favorite children books from 60 years ago, which we defined as 1964-66. We turned out to both have the same favorite: Louise Fitzhugh's The Long Secret, the sequel to Harriet the Spy. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

This week, we read The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. It's the story of Will, who discovers on his eleventh birthday that he’s an Old One, destined to fight against the Dark. It takes place over the holidays and is a great December read. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

On our latest episode, we discuss Betsy Byars' Newbery Medal-winning 1970 novel The Summer of the Swans. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

On our latest episode, we matched wits against each other to crack the cases in Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret Pitch. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Elizabeth Enright's 1941 novel The Saturdays, about a family of children who pool their allowances and set out on solo adventures in New York, was one of our favorite rereads. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Still working through our backlog, here's our Halloween episode, on Elizabeth George Speare's 1959 Newbery Medal winner The Witch of Blackbird Pond. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Continuing with the podcast episode backlog, here's our episode on The Hotel Cat, which Deborah (a cat person) loved as a child and Mary Grace (not a cat person) had never heard of. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

Things have been hectic over the last couple of months, and we've gotten way behind. In September we read Virginia Hamilton's Newbery Medal-winning 1974 novel M.C. Higgins, the Great. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

Original cover of M.C. Higgins the Great, two children and a boy on a pole.

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

For our latest episode, Deborah and I read L. Frank Baum's 1900 classic The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. We talked about the monoculture, the history of sunglasses, and, of course, the movie. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/epis...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 05/09/2024

It was a total coincidence, but excellent timing, that we chose the 100th anniversary of Joan Aiken's birth to discuss her wonderful book Black Hearts in Battersea. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1562...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

We had a lot of fun discussing Joan Aiken's Black Hearts in Battersea, set in an alt-history 19th-century London where resourceful orphans foil sinister plots. September 4 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of this wonderful, inventive writer. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1562...

Cover of Black Hearts in Battersea by Joan Aiken; 19th-century people flying in a hot-air balloon over London.

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 08/08/2024

On rereading, Ramona the Pest was as funny and wise as ever. Beverly Cleary is definitely a contender for the title of greatest children's book author of all time. #GOAT rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1555...

Cover of Ramona the Pest by Beverly Cleary, showing Ramona skipping.

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 27/07/2024

In our latest episode, Mary Grace introduces Deborah to a childhood favorite, Ellen Raskin's 1971 mystery novel (really more of a puzzle/word game) The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel). rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1547...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 11/07/2024

On our latest episode, we discuss Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry's classic 1947 story about two wild ponies and a brother and sister on the island of Chincoteague who long to own them. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1539...

Cover of Misty of Chincoteague featuring a closeup of the face of Misty, a pony.

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 13/06/2024

On our latest episode, we had a great time revisiting Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery's beloved story of a strong-willed and imaginative Canadian orphan. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1524...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 30/05/2024

On our latest episode, Mary Grace tries to turn Deborah into a fellow fan of one of her favorite books, John Verney's February's Road. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1515...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

We're back for our second season! On our first episode, we discuss E.B. White's classic Stuart Little, which was an early childhood favorite of both of ours. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1506...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 23/02/2024

For the last episode of our first season, we reread The Phantom Tollbooth, written by Norton Juster and, just as importantly, illustrated by Jules Feiffer. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1455...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

On our latest podcast episode, we discuss The Egypt Game, Zilpha Keatley Snyder's 1967 Newbery Honor Book about a group of children in Berkeley who play an elaborate game based on ancient Egypt. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1445...

Cover of The Egypt Game, featuring several children dressed up like ancient Egyptians.

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 27/01/2024

For our latest episode, we read Danny Dunn and the Anti-Gravity Paint, the first book in the popular science-fiction series. Deborah discusses the book in the context of the Cold War and Mary Grace gets very picky about space science. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1437...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

We celebrated the new year by discussing our favorite children's books from 50 years ago (defined as 1972-1974). Surprisingly, Mary Rodgers' A Billion for Boris was the only book on both of our lists. rereadingourchildhood.buzzsprout.com/2169533/1429...

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Rereading Our Childhood @rereadingpodcast.bsky.social · 29/12/2023

Rereading Our Childhood is taking the week off, but Mary Grace wrote a blog post reflecting on our first six months as podcasters: the high points, the not-so-high points, and the top ten episodes of the year. rereadingourchildhood.com

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